Harvey Nash are delighted to be working with our valued client to appoint a key Tech Leadership post in Scotland. This is an exciting, newly created opportunity to help our client progress on their Tech journey providing extensive insight and input into all aspects of their API engineering tech. This is a newly created role, critical to our clients ongoing success and the successful candidate will combine their extensive leadership skills with the API space, with senior stakeholder engagement experience and a proven track record in Technology inivvoation specific to API. You will be responsible for the overarching API strategy from architecture and design to build and on-going support of the key API platform, with a strong focus on reusability, scalability and efficiency. This is such an exciting time to join our client on this journey, and you will play a critical role for their ongoing platform evolution.

Essential skills:
Proven experience in building & leading SW engineering teams. Outstanding technical pedigree to include cloud, digital & API. Experience in establishing best practice SW design as well as appropriate governance. Experience in leading the broad development of API capabilities (eg, design, standards, governance) across an engineering organisation. Leadership experience at the most senior level within a fast paced Tech environment. Financial services/Fintech or similar would be ideal!. Expert knowledge of API technologies. Expert knowledge of end to end software development life cycle

This is one of the most interesting roles to come up in Scotland for a while so please don't hesitate to get in touch with your CV in the first instance.